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Lately information- and communication technology (ICT) has been seen as an important tool to vitalize democracy. What kind of democracy it generates is however debateable. The objective with this thesis is therefore to examine what democratic ideal that dominates the use of ICT in Region Skåne and Västra Götalandsregionen and what kind of citizenship it brings. The two case studies were chosen bec

I Sverige jobbar tusentals människor som gymnasielärare och av dessa lämnade 7% yrket under 2019. En anledning är stress. Tidigare forskning visar att lärare löper 50% högre risk att drabbas av stressrelaterad utmattning jämfört med andra yrkesgrupper och ett skäl till detta är bristande balans mellan arbete och privatliv. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur gymnasielärare själva upplever

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) represent the first sale of the firms’ shares to the public. By setting lower offer prices, companies going public create opportunities for investors to earn abnormal returns, making IPOs an attractive investment strategy. This is a well-known and widely discussed in academic literature the IPO underpricing phenomenon. There are different motives for the IPO underpr

The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces towards second-hand shopping for clothing. Though literature on this topic already exists, there is still room for further examination, especially when adding other perspectives to it. Therefore, this project is especially concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations for shopping second-hand, looking into

The main purpose of this Bachelor thesis is to study Mesolithic fur-game hunting and how it changed over time. New influences can change an economy rapidly, for example the fur trade during the seventeenth century in North America. In three Danish late-Mesolithic settlements Agernæs, Ringkloster and Tybrind Vig excavations has yielded evidence for largescale hunting of Pine marten. Is it possible

The purpose of this study was to investigate how professionals view the Special Team in the city of Landskrona and their way of working with people with dementia. In the study, five interviews were conducted – one with the unit manager for the Special Team, one interview each with two of the assistant nurses for the Special Team, one interview with a social secretary from the city of Malmö and one

Denna studie utforskade andlighet och alkoholism ur ett existentiellt, psykologiskt och sociologiskt perspektiv. Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta aktiva medlemmar i Anonyma Alkoholister (AA) syftade studien till att undersöka vilken betydelse medlemmar i AA tillskriver andligheten i tolvstegsprogrammet. Materialet analyserades med tematisk analys utifrån en fenomenologisk ansats. Analys

Problem: Fastighetsbranschen är en bransch som är känt för att ha en stor miljöpåverkan. Inom redovisning kan upprättandet av hållbarhetsrapporter ses som ett bidrag till hållbar utveckling. Under de senaste åren har integrerad rapportering ökat i Sverige, det är därför aktuellt och intressant att studera om införandet av integrerad hållbarhetsrapportering kan påverka fastighetsföretagens hållbarh

Juvenile delinquency has become an obvious and recurring issue in the daily debate and emerges as one of the most controlling and dominant societal problems. There are various reasons why people choose to commit crime and there is no easy answer to the question why young people commit crime. A fundamental but crucial distinction to be made regarding crime is the difference between deviant acts and